Art
Mitigation
Dance for Two Lights
riori
ej
Night Fishing
Lost Searchlights
Out of Bounds
Light on Plastic Bag
wings
Face Sketches
Lighting Design
CHOW
RoBoGo
Slay the Runway
Projection Mapping
PANEL
Synaptic Resonance
ATLAS Tower Lights
Human-Computer Interaction
SCOBY Breastplate
AirRacket
The SwissBall
The Hapstrument
Body, Light, Space
From the Intercom
Creative Coding
Hackathon Projects
About
Arbor (b. Derrek Chow) is an artist and researcher creating immersive light experiences and novel input devices. Using design and technology as tools of inquiry, he creates experiential works in various forms such as artifact, installation, and performance.
Arbor received a degree in software engineering from the University of Waterloo where he studied in the Expressive Input & Interaction Group (exii). He was a designer at RNDR and Human-Computer Interaction researcher at the ACME Lab in the ATLAS Institute and the NTU HCI Lab in National Taiwan University.
Arbor has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), and the University of Colorado Boulder. Selected venues include The Lab (San Francisco), the B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance (Boulder), Gray Area (San Francisco), CURRENTS (Santa Fe), and the Salone del Mobile Milano (Milan).
Artist Feature
Featuring work created and performed in the B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022. Directed by Ezekiel Miles.Publication
Ching-Yi Tsai, I-Lun Tsai, Chao-Jung Lai, Derrek Chow, Lauren Wei, Lung-Pan Cheng, Mike Y. Chen. AirRacket: Perceptual design of Ungrounded, Directional Force Feedback to Improve Virtual Racket Sports Experiences. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). 15 pages.★ BEST PAPER AWARD
Jonathan Lane-Smith, Derrek Chow, Sahand Ajami, Jeremy Cooperstock. The Hapstrument: A Bimanual Haptic Interface for Musical Expression. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2023). 5 pages.
Fiona Bell, Derrek Chow, Hyelin Choi, Mirela Alistar. SCOBY Breastplate: Slowly Growing a Microbial Interface. The ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2023). 15 pages.
★ BEST PICTORIAL AWARD
Fiona Bell, Derrek Chow, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Laura Devendorf, Mirela Alistar. Designing Interactions with Kombucha SCOBY. The ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2023). 5 pages.
Derrek Chow, Gracie Xia, Jasmine Ou. FormSense: A Fabrication Method to Support Shape Exploration of Interactive Prototypes. The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022). 3 pages.
Akiyoshidai International Artist Village
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Contact
[email protected]
Links
Quotes, Cut-ups, Playlists↗
Past sites
2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
© Derrek Chow 2025